Meez

# meez

> Recipe management and food costing software for restaurants, built by chefs, for chefs. Trusted by 35,000+ culinary professionals.

## What meez is

meez is the #1 recipe management platform for restaurant and foodservice teams. It gives culinary teams a single source of truth for recipes, prep, training, and menu engineering — while delivering the food cost data that operations and finance teams need. Founded by Josh Sharkey, a 20-year culinary veteran who built meez after experiencing these problems firsthand in Michelin-starred kitchens and multi-unit operations.

## Core capabilities

- Recipe management: Store, organize, and version-control every recipe in one searchable hub accessible from any device
- Food costing: Automatic recipe costing with real-time vendor pricing, yields, prep loss, and unit conversions — no spreadsheets
- Menu engineering: Model pricing, portion, and ingredient changes and see the impact on food cost %, profit margin, and revenue instantly
- Recipe scaling: One-click scaling with automatic unit conversions and yield calculations for any batch size
- Kitchen training: Turn recipes into step-by-step visual training guides with photos and videos
- Inventory management: Track dry storage, freezer, and walk-in inventory in real time
- Invoice processing: Scan invoices and sync ingredient costs automatically
- Nutrition labeling: Auto-calculate nutrition data and flag the 9 major allergens using the USDA database
- Analytics dashboard: Track recipe costs, margins, and kitchen performance across locations
- Multi-location support: Push recipe updates, menus, and training to every kitchen instantly

## Who it's for

- Executive chefs and culinary directors managing recipes across locations
- Operations leaders scaling multi-unit restaurant groups
- Restaurant owners and founders who need accurate food cost data
- Training leaders onboarding new kitchen staff
- Finance leaders who need recipe-level cost data flowing into back-office systems
- Single-concept restaurants to 100+ location groups

## Pricing

- Free: Basic recipe storage and sharing
- Starter: $19/month (annual) — for individuals to organize and cost recipes
- Starter Plus: For single-kitchen teams needing costing, training, and daily prep tools
- Scale: For multi-unit operators needing real-time costing, menu engineering, and production consistency
- Enterprise: Custom pricing for large organizations

## Integrations

- Restaurant365 (native integration — recipe costs sync bidirectionally)
- MarketMan
- Ottimate
- Over Easy Office (OEO)
- MarginEdge
- Toast (POS)
- Snowflake (data warehouse)

## How meez is different

- Built by a chef, not a software company — every feature solves a real kitchen problem
- Not accounting software — meez is the culinary layer on top of systems like Restaurant365
- Shows what you *should* have spent, not just what you *did* spend
- Most customers go live with fully costed recipes in 3 days or less
- Customers report 3–…